A Conspiracy to Kill IE6

Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 by tatersolid on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @07:40PM (#19802812)

Your comment is demonstrably nonsense. Windows 10 only suggests Edge if you make IE11 your default browser.

If you choose Firefox or Chrome it never suggests that you should switch to Edge.

Microsoft’s lawyers are not stupid.

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Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 by terinjokes on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @08:00PM (#19802997)

I'm confused. It prompts me all the time to change my default browser to Edge. Microsoft products ignore the default browser bit and open links in Edge, which them opens pop-ups to change my default browser to Edge.

Even the UI for changing the default browser in Settings heavily encourages you to set Edge.

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Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 by iggldiggl on Thursday May 02, 2019 @03:33AM (#19805608)

> Microsoft products ignore the default browser bit and open links in Edge

Try something like EdgeDeflector (https://github.com/da2x/EdgeDeflector) for redirecting those links to your default browser.

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Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 by atomicwrites on Saturday May 04, 2019 @09:50AM (#19826414)

Thank you for answering questions I didn't know to ask.

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Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 by dralley on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @11:55PM (#19804553)

This is a lie. Every single time I've tried to switch a Windows 10 installation to default to Firefox, it asks about trying Edge first.

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Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 by tatersolid on Saturday May 04, 2019 @07:13AM (#19825758)

I think I must be missing out due to Enterpise licensing.

With Win10 Enterpise I’ve never encountered pop-up nags for Edge when changing the browser. Links are never redirected into Edge even from other MSFT products.

This is on like three different Win10 enterprise laptops.

I’ll have to ask the help desk guys what they do to our corporate images if anything. To me it looks like plain-vanilla Win10 Enterpise while deploying from our WDS server.

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Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 by atomicwrites on Saturday May 04, 2019 @09:52AM (#19826430)

It also resets all your default apps to the Microsoft apps (edge, photos, music, etc.) on almost every update.

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Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 by bigger_cheese on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @09:20PM (#19803602)

I setup a new PC for my Dad over Easter weekend - Windows 10 prompted me to switch to Edge when I tried to set default browser to Chrome for him.

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Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 by buffalo2391 on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @07:59PM (#19802990)

This isn't exactly accurate, I've had multiple menus telling me to switch to edge from chrome.

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Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 by pbhjpbhj on Thursday May 02, 2019 @11:29AM (#19808891)

Perhaps I'm not remembering it right but doesn't it day something like "you should use a stable modern browser instead! Are you sure you don't want to keep using Edge"??

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Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 by TeMPOraL on Saturday May 04, 2019 @10:06AM (#19826521)

It's more like "Windows has a modern browser called Edge, you might want to try it out; are you sure you want to change the default?".

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Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 by ddingus on Friday May 03, 2019 @11:57AM (#19819530)

They are missing an awesome opportunity. Provide a place for people to say why they won't.

A lot of that input will be garbage. Some seriously laughable in a good way, a few gems.

Why not get them?

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Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 by Causality1 on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @09:51PM (#19803799)

I just reinstalled Windows 10 on my laptop to fix a driver issue Windows Update fucked up and it absolutely does do that.

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